Deaths and Funerals Anna Lane and Charline Chirk
Funeral services are planned for Anna Mae Lane 63 of 121 Opdyke Ave at 3 p.m. Sunday at Osborn Funeral Home Dix burial in Boyd Cemetery. Ch arkline Chirk 61 of 105 Castleton Ave died on arrival at Good Samaritan Hospital after a heart attack. Service at Myers Chapel 1 30 p.m. Monday burial in Memorial Gardens. Chirk survived by husband Max L Chirk daughter Sharon Tate brother Gale Riley sister Clyde Carter five grandchildren.
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Anna Mae Lane
Opdyke Ave
Osborn Funeral Home
Dix
Boyd Cemetery
Charline Chirk
Castleton Avenue
Good Samaritan Hospital
Myers Chapel
Bus Hart
Memorial Gardens
Chirk
Jefferson County
Charles C
Hester C. (Standfer) Riley
Max L. Chirk
Bud
Sharon) Tate
Mt. Vernon
Gale Riley
Taylorville
Ill
Clyde Carter
Princeton
Ind
Edith McLean Fairfield obituary notice
Edith Viola McLean 55 of Fairfield died at 7 55 a m Friday at Fairfield Memorial Hospital She born December 10 1915 daughter of Otto and Bessie Navolt Survived by husband Walter three sons Bobby Ray Charles David and Gary three daughters Mary Lee Hatchcraft Grace Marie Medier Evelyn Jean Harris three brothers Otto Eugene and Robert Navoll a half sister Betty Grace Galiher and 20 grandchildren Services 130 pm Sunday at Nales Funeral Home Fairfield Rev J W Reed officiating Burial Maple Hill Cemetery Friends may call after 5 pm today
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Edith Viola McLean
Fairfield
Fairfield Memorial Hospital
Otto
Bessie Noble Navolt
Walter
Bobby Ray
Charles David
Yale
Mich
Gary
Bossier City
Mary Lee Hatchcraft
Golden Gate
Grace Marie Medier
Evelyn Jean Harris
Viella
Infant Robert Burgess Burgess Valier
Robert Dale Burgess infant son of Bob and Sarah Burgess of Valier died Thursday. He was born Thursday at Marshall Browning Hospital in DuQuoin. Survived by brother John David and sister Elizabeth Ann both at home. Graveside services 11 a.m. today at Maple Hill Cemetery Sesser officiated by Rev. David Mayers. Brayfield Funeral Home of Sesser in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Dale Burgess
Bob
Sarah Gam
Tat Burgess
Valier
Marshall Browning
Robert Earl Waller of Mt. Vernon dies at 46
Funeral services for Robert Earl Waller 46 of Route 3 Mt. Vernon will be held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church with burial in Maple Hill Cemetery. He died Thursday night at Good Samaritan Hospital. Survived by wife Rebba Gulley mother Edna Waller three sons Bobbie Wayne Ronald Lee and Stephen Craig two brothers Harry and Jack Waller and two sisters Evale Allen and Joyce Ann Lowery. Friends may call at Myers Chapel after 5:00 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Earl Waller
Mt. Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Wesley United Methodist Church
Maple Hill Cemetery
Lesser
Myers Chapel
Waller
Deal Barber Shop
Rebba Gulley
Edna Waller
Bobbie Wayne
Lawrenceville
Ronald Lee Waller
Stephen Craig Waller
Harry Waller
Jack Waller
Evale Allen
Joyce Ann Lowery
Long Beach
California
Mt Vernon man Ronald Beard dies at 31
Ronald Dean Beard 31 of 212 Opdyke Avenue died 11:00 a.m. yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital. He worked as a maintenance man for Hoben Candy Company at Ashley. Services at Myers Chapel Sunday 2:00 p.m. with burial in Kirk Cemetery. He was born April 30, 1940 in Bonnie, son of John Foster and Edna Clinton Beard. Survived by wife Phyllis Dagg, Mt. Vernon. mother Edna Dagg, Mt. Vernon. one son Homer Beard. sisters LaVern Wilson Aurora, Margie Dagg Mt. Vernon, Leia Bailey Bonnie. brothers Donald, Junior, Bob Beard Mt. Vernon. Preceded in death by father.
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Ronald Dean Beard
Opdyke Avenue
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr. Beard
Hoben Candy Company
Ashley
Myers Chapel
Kirk Cemetery
Bonnie
John Foster
Edna (Clinton) Beard
Mt. Vernon
Phyllis Dagg
Edna Dagg
Homer Beard
LaVern Wilson
Aurora
Margie Dagg
Leia Bailey
Donald
Junior
Bob Beard
Danville Veteran Erwin Bunnage Dies at 85
Erwin Bunnage 85 of Danville died Thursday at Veterans Hospital Danville after long illness. Services set for Sunday 3:30 p.m. at Nale Funeral Home Fairfield with Rev. Robert Krause. burial Maple Hill Cemetery. Survived by five sons Ed Charles Woodrow Melvin all of Fairfield Nelson Indianapolis Ind and a daughter Mrs Ernest Madding Homer Illinois and eight grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erwin Bunnage
Danville
Veterans Hospital
Nale
Fairfield
Robert Krause
Burlel
Maple Hill
Bunnage
Edwards County
Alfred and
Eveline
Bailey) Bunnage
Nellie
Charles
Woodrow
Melvin Bunnage
Nelson Bunnage
Indianapolis
Ind
Ernest Madding
Homer
Rusk Defends 1964 Policy On Vietnam Deception Claims
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk defended U S policy in a NBC interview saying there was no deception and noting staff contingency work but no Johnson plan to bomb North Vietnam. He acknowledged underestimating North Vietnamese resolve and suggested UN involvement could have helped Indochina.
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John F. Kennedy
Johnson
NBC
Texas
Pentagon
Times
Rusk
Vietnam
CBS Evening News
United Nations
Indochina
North Vietnam
Ex Leukemia Patient Visits Her Former Doctor
Rebecca Wright a Marshfield Wisconsin eight year old girl traveled 750 miles to Mt Vernon to see her former physician Dr J R Heersma. She is reportedly in 44 years of remission with no current signs of leukemia and has maintained contact with Dr Heersma and Marshfield clinic associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Wright
Marshfield
Wis
Mt. Vernon
J.R. Hmeersma
Rebecca
Heerssma
Heersma
Ferner Clinic Associates
McNamara sought to cut bomb raids in Vietnam war
A Pentagon study disclosed that in May 1967 McNamara urged the Johnson administration to stop insisting on a non Communist Vietnam and be willing to accept a coalition government in Saigon including Viet Cong elements. The Times notes the study fully documents his war weariness.
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KON
Pentagon
Hse
McNamara
Johnson
Vietnam
Saigon
Times
Hecklers Denounced by Hartke
About 100 demonstrators from the Progressive Labor Party rose and tried to shout down Hartke during the meeting. They chanted No ruling class speakers and Power to the workers as the crowd heckled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Labor Party
Mt. V Scout Troop 111 Wins Camp Joy Honors
Mt. Vernon boy scout troop II won the Camp Joy award of honor amid 13 county troops from Okaw Valley council. Twenty boys with Scoutmaster C Budd Greene completed 14 rank advancements and 62 merit badges. Shepard Green earned Eagle Scout the day before leaving for camp and four boys joined the Order of the Arrow. An Eagle Court of Honor is set for July 9 at Buford School with Dr J L Buford as guest.
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Mt. Vernon
Camp Joy
Okaw Valley Council
C. Budd Greene
Shepard Green
Eagle Scout
Order of the Arrow
John Barbee
William Barbee
Kevin Gill
John
Buford School
J. L. Buford
Plane Carrying 68 Persons Missing Over Japan
A TOA Airlines YS-11 with 68 aboard vanished during a domestic flight from Sapporo to Hakodate on Hokkaido. Police search crews scoured Hakodate area after losing radio contact with Hakodate control tower amid poor visibility.
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Hakodate
Japan
TOA Airlines
Sapporo
Hokkaido
Glaim Youth Hangs Self in Fake Death Report Cleared
CAHOKIA Ill AP A corrections report cleared the city police of blame in the hanging of 14 year old Don Hatch craft in a jail cell police found him asleep in a camper trailer chief Kuharich said the youth faked a death attempt as a bid for attention and apparently strangled himself in an apparent accident he had prior detentions with no incident
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cahokia
Ill
Department of Corrections
Anthony
Kuharich
Don Hatchcraft
Mearl Justus
Justus
Mt Vernon Lodge Plans Special Meeting With Breakfast
Mt Vernon Lodge No 9 A F and A M to hold a special meeting Monday morning July 6 6 30 a m with breakfast served and Third Degree work led by Worshipful Master Oral Stimson and Secretary Byron Weld.
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Mt. Vernon
A.F
A.M
Oral Stimson
W.M. Byron Weld
Sec'y
Mayor Pickets X Rated Movie Promoting Family Films
LA SALLE Illinois AP Mayor Al Gunia plans to picket the theater for its X rated Swedish film to push clean wholesome pictures for the family. Theater manager Douglas Merrifield says the mayor did not preview the movie but respects picketing rights.
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Merrifield
Mexico pays ransom in Monterrey hijack crisis
The Nuevo Leon government supplied unmarked bills for a ransom to free Monica Amparo Garza and other hostages aboard a Braniff plane. The money was delivered by Braniff manager Eduardo Escamilla. Garza retrieved a portion before release, while U.S. agents questioned remaining passengers in San Antonio.
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Monica Amparo Garza
Nuevo Leon
Eduardo Escamilla
Braniff
Monterrey
Alicia de la Fuente
Miss Garza
Jackson
Edward Daws
Lima
Ricard Collins
Houston
Tex
Collins
Fireworks Display Lights Mt Vernon Park Lake Island
The city park hosts a mammoth fireworks show at 9:30 p.m. Monday as the Fourth of July weekend peaks. Sponsored by the American Legion, the event draws thousands and marks the final night of the weeklong Veterans Reunion.
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Mt. Vernon
American Legion
City Park Lake
VW Sales Conference Attendee From Mt Vernon Illinois
A Mt Vernon Illinois dealer attended a professional sales conference in Oak Brook Illinois with headquarters in Deerfield Illinois. The event involved participants from Legacy Edler eral Manages me tors Inc an authorized VW dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cena Han Ill
Edlereral
Metors, Inc
Cosmonauts Die After Spacecraft Pressure Loss
A Soviet inquest found an explosion of blood to the brain caused the deaths of three cosmonauts after a two day space mission aboard the Salute orbital lab. Embolisms from cabin pressure loss were cited as the immediate killer. The ashes of Georgy Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev were entombed in the Kremlin wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orbiting Laboratory
Soyuz
Georgy Dobrovolsky
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Patsayev
Kremlin
Onookera
Governor Signs Doctors Unit and School Bills
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie signed measures limiting doctors and hospitals liability for blood and related services after a Chicago hospital faced a hepatitis case. He also backed creating a community unit school district via majority vote, replacing previous dual-area requirements. A veto was issued on a bill exempting barriers from Illinois antitrust price fixing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield, II
Richard B. Ogilvie Frnd
Chicago
Thieu says no obstacles to U S withdrawal
President Thieu asserts no obstacles to U S withdrawal in remarks after addressing Vietnamese officials in Saigon. Kissinger meets Vietnamese leaders in Saigon before traveling to Bangkok New Delhi and Rawalpindi en route to Paris. U S troop levels in Vietnam stand around 235 000 down from a peak of 643 000 two years ago with further cuts planned by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vietnam
Thieu
Saigon
Eva Comeseiet
Mi P
Kissinger
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Creighton W. Abrams
Bangkok
New Delhi
Rawalpindi
Paris
White House
California
Nixon
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Vernon
Edith McLean
Robert Burgess Valier
Robert Waller
Ronald D. Beard
Dorothy Talbert
Wet Mber
Owen Oe
Robert Blair
Cellini
Ogilvie
General Assembly
Peoria
State Department of Transportation
Hecklers
Hartke
Mt. V. Scout
Powell
Johnnie’s
Airport Road
Dacron
Orion
McNeds Tailors
Hong Kong
Mount Vernon
Sun
MR. C
Larry
Holiday Inn
US 460 & St
McNeds
K.P
Kowloon
Glaim
Glen
Glen Hayes
City Park
AYS
Ekee
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